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A Mississippi mayoral candidate makes some startling claims about industrial hemp in a video outlining her platforms. Gwendolyn Ward Osbourne Chapman is among 13 candidates running in a special election to replace the late Mayor Chokwe Lumumba,...

Televangelist Pat Robertson warned on Thursday that the government was pushing technologies that would force every financial transaction to be controlled “by computer,” and it could be the “Mark of the Beast” described in...

A notoriously credulous Tea Party group made a pair of Facebook posts questioning whether a Connecticut school massacre was staged by President Barack Obama. The Florida-based National Liberty Foundation posted a photo Wednesday showing the...

By Lisa Maria Garza FORT HOOD, Texas (Reuters) – The soldier suspected of gunning down three people before killing himself at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas was under psychiatric care but showed no signs of violence or suicidal...

BOSTON (Reuters) – Former Massachusetts Republican Senator Scott Brown, who last month said he was exploring a run for Senate in New Hampshire, has quit his job at a Boston law firm, the firm confirmed on Thursday. “We enjoyed having...

By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) – New Jersey Governor Chris Christie fell to ninth place from his top spot among favored U.S. politicians after a scandal over traffic lane closures on the George Washington Bridge, according to a...

(Reuters) – The University of Connecticut evacuated the admissions building at its campus outside Hartford on Thursday after receiving a bomb threat and urged students and staff who were not on campus to stay away. No injuries were...

A new Chicago eatery is positioning itself as the antithesis to Chick-fil-A. Leghorn Chicken, which opened early last month in Ukrainian Village, offers locally sourced poultry served spicy or pickle brined, as the national fast food chain does,...

Sports radio hosts in New York City roundly criticized New York Mets’ second baseman Daniel Murphy for his decision to take paternity leave to attend the birth of his first child. WFAN host Mike Francesa — who has been known to take...

A Manhattan court reporter’s struggle with alcoholism has left the verdicts in multiple criminal trials in question due to his illegible transcriptions and passages where he wrote nothing but “I hate my job” over and over....

Police in Pennsylvania say a church worker who was arrested on Wednesday for raping a woman in the church “for hours” had also been sought for sexually assaulting a young girl over a period of about three years. According to Upper...

Three out of four Americans believe marijuana will one day be legal to buy and use anywhere in the United States, according to a public opinion poll released Wednesday. Fifty-four percent of respondents to the Pew Research Center survey said...

The Nez Perce tribe once hunted bison in what is now Yellowstone National Park, and some tribal leaders want to revive the practice, which ended with Western settlement and the near total extermination of the once-vast U.S. bison herds. Today,...

On Wednesday night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, former President Bill Clinton shared what he believes is the only sure-fire way to achieve world peace — facilitate an alien invasion. The former president said that, shortly after taking...

A Seattle man told police that he has been receiving mystery packages of marijuana mailed to his home. The man, whose name was not released, told officers that he received the first package last month marked “return to sender, insufficient...